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Mike Oldfield - Amarok (to me, this album is just about perfect) Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound (No Hodgson on this one and the result is a, dare I say, ballsy album. Unfortunately that era was over as soon as it began) Yes - Drama - The band were between heydays and were without Jon Anderson, so they had a chance to write an album without his new age influence Blue Oyster Cult - Club Ninja - I think many fans as well as the band themselves don't give it the time of day, but I think it's got some really good stuff on it.

The lyrics are probably some, if not all, of the reason that Neil referred to revisiting Rush's older songs as "looking at his old elementary school drawings".

I lost interest in the Scorpions way back in the mid 80's after they released "Love at First Sting". I'm a big fan of the Roth era and Jabs up to that point in time. Just yesterday, I gave both "Blackout" and "LaFS" a listen to see if my opinion has changed at all on the latter album. It hasn't. Once they realized they could be a mainstream act in America (and I'm guessing this was because of the success of "No One Like You"), they were never the same.

Unfortunately, I don't believe his matrimonial choices over the years will allow him to. He probably needs just one more influx of cash before he packs it in.

Has anyone seen Alex's instructional videos from around 2006/2007? I believe he has videos for TSOR, Limelight and Tom Sawyer. I love how he admits he doesn't know the names of a lot of the chords he is using.

If it existed, it would be buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia (I'm hoping some of you get the joke or all was for naught).

I was supposed to see Hackett in April of 2020 (now rescheduled to April 2022). I have seen him once before and appreciate what he's doing. As long as he's still drawing a crowd that wants to hear that music, then why not? As far as what the other members of Genesis think...I can't imagine they care very much. They've made much more money throughout the years than Hackett has given that he left not long before the band became a mainstream act. Also, it's something they could all do if they had the ambition. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to keep a band together that is interested in going around playing old Genesis songs. It's probably not something the other guys would want to deal with along with the constant travel. As far as Genesis turning "poppy", it most likely was a reaction to the success that Phil was having with his solo career. Also, a band can't create epic prog rock forever (think of Rush after the Hemispheres sessions). It becomes a little formulaic after a while and the musical ideas need to be reeled in a bit. I just watched a documentary from the 2007 or so timeframe where Banks says that he was typically the one who was willing to make songs more complicated in their later years.

It may be better this time around. The further out in time we get the more the guys might find it worth doing the prog stuff justice as both that and the 80s stuff are well past their heyday now. As much as I hate to say it, I don't think it's possible to have a "better this time around". Phil sounds like I imagine my 85 year old father would sound if he tried to sing Genesis tunes in the shower. The bottom line is that the backbone of the 3-piece Genesis is Phil's singing and drumming and he can no longer do either.

I don't think it's the "sitting down" that's a problem. Phil's singing voice is, for all intents and purposes, gone.

I love Roine's guitar tone. He doesn't overplay or shred for the sake of shredding. Combine that with the great vocals, nice lyrics and other outstanding musicians and this band is a keeper. For the first time in a long time, I had to put some effort into listening to really appreciate what the band is trying to do. I feel this band is worth the effort.

Anyone else out there like this band? I stumbled upon them on Spotify and am really impressed with their last two albums (Waiting for Miracles and Islands). I think they manage to maintain a highly original sound while still capturing that classic progressive sound which I though had been lost forever.

The drum solo was the idea of a singer who had a sore throat.

Boy, I really put my VCR through the wringer when I first got the ESL video. I received a classical guitar for Christmas one year and made my fingers raw by trying to learn the chords that Alex was playing in the beginning of "The Trees". That classical guitar is still sitting next to me as I type this. Ah, the memories. If I would have had YouTube back then, I would have been unstoppable.

You're impatiently waiting for something and start tapping your feet in 9/8 time.

When you refer to 30+ year old albums from one of your favorite progressive bands as "one of their newer albums".

For the first album, I think Terry provided the professional reassurance that what they'd come up with wasn't complete crap. I'm sure the band wasn't overly confident in their work and needed guidance. The rest is history.

So, do you call animal control if one of those pop up in the house? Or an exterminator? I'd call one of those two right after I changed my underwear.

It's always been Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull. The only question was how long he allowed other musicians to "tag along".

What happened to the good 'ole days when Jethro Tull could win "Heavy Metal Act of the Year"?

My mother-in-law made pillows out of some of the old t-shirts I had. I have three of them from shirts that were not long for this world. A Marillion "Seasons End" shirt from '90 A Pink Floyd "Momentary Lapse of Reason" shirt from '87 A BOC "Imaginos" shirt from '89

With Jon Anderson, I think whatever word fit the cadence that he was trying to sing was what he used. If the word happened to have new age and/or hippie connotations, then it was a keeper. I always though Greg Lake's lyrics were always cringe-worthy. I mistakenly gave him credit for writing the lyrics to ELP's "Pirates", but evidently he had help on that one.

Lucky...two of my favorite bands. I believe Rush had opened for BOC several times in the late 70's. That has to be awkward when the opening act becomes the headliner and vice-versa.

When you play Rush Trivia with your kids at the dinner table and they perform respectably well.

I think they released a video like this for all their older albums. They're all pretty good with some tidbits I didn't know before. What I remember most of all is how painful it is to listen to Peter Gabriel try to put together complete sentences.

Thanks...I'm more of a lurker here than anything, but I appreciate the sentiment. As far as what I'm spinning...I listen to a lot of Spotify playlists hoping that I'll encounter something new that gets me going. I'm sick to death of my iPhone music library at this point. There is only so much old prog rock that one can listen to. So far, I haven't found anything new that knocks my socks off, but have found some old music that I never really paid a whole lot of attention to back in the day. Van Halen - I loved them in my late teens, but drifted away from them when they released 1984. I now consider that a perfect album from that time period. I'll never be a fan of the Sammy stuff though. The Tubes Eric Clapton The Beatles AC/DC - The Bon Scott era This is music I never would have bothered with if it wasn't on Spotify